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Another brick in the wall – can we save child rights from school surveillance?

30 years ago the Berlin Wall fell, and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was born. But British children’s privacy rights are now being breached at a scale few parents are aware of.

Another brick in the wall – can we save child rights from school surveillance?
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What were you doing thirty years ago this week?

Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were getting everybody to twist again, riding high in the UK charts. We were halfway through the third Thatcher government. The poll tax was starting up. The Berlin Wall was coming down.